But it's not really cause its using parts of vscode on the backend to even function, so it really seems like their just trying to make it seem like more than it is, which is their cloud-editor project.
Wasted human resources and talents. Progress would be more prevalent if HRs were better allocated.
But they are indeed free to work on whatever they like even if I will not benefit from their work, sadly.
Not wasted. Those people will learn a lot of new things, right ?
Should work optimization be primary goal in this universe ? I guess not, or you will have hard time defending existence of movies, board/PC games, all sports, all baletristic writing etc. That is not very interesting place to be.